Mindy Raf @ Gilded Balloon, Rose Theatre

There’s a subtle difference between a one person show and monologue at the Fringe. This show tends towards the latter, heralding confessional desperation – it's like a therapy session the comic inflicts on the audience. A professional New Yorker, Mindy Raf is basically Woody Allen with weed lube – neurotic and Jewish with a complicated lovelife. Oh, and there’s singing. With pipes like Joni Mitchell at church, there’s definitely singing.

Keeping my Kindeys is crammed with first world problems – anxiety over which mason jar to twist to get out of a secret bar – and it becomes hard to have much sympathy. An issue of Broadly will give you more gen on Brooklyn queer culture, and probably a few more laughs too.

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Mindy Raf: Keeping My Kidneys, Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre (Attic), until 28 Aug (not 14), 7.15pm, £9-12